Spaceship name generator

Names for your starship, from warships and explorers to freighters and smuggler's ships.

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90 spaceship name ideas

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How famous starships are named

Famous spaceships follow a few patterns. Many carry an ideal, like Enterprise, Serenity, Defiant or Endurance. Others borrow myth, like Prometheus or the Nostromo. Iain M. Banks gave the ships in his Culture novels whole sentences for names, like Just Read the Instructions. Navies in fiction add prefixes, as Star Trek's USS does.

Describe your ship, its size, its job and its crew, to get 20 names that fit. Or browse the ideas below by type.

5 tips for naming a spaceship

  1. Name the ship's purpose

    A warship suits Vengeance or Indomitable. An explorer suits Horizon or Odyssey. The name should hint at what the ship does.

  2. Borrow from myth

    Gods and heroes give a ship weight: Prometheus, Artemis, Icarus. Pick one whose story fits, or one whose story warns.

  3. Add a class and a prefix

    Fleets name ships in classes, like Star Trek's Constitution class. A prefix like USS, HMS or an invented one makes a fleet feel real.

  4. Give small ships personal names

    Freighters and smuggler ships are named by their owners, often after a person or a joke. The Millennium Falcon and Serenity feel like homes, not navy hulls.

  5. Keep it easy on the radio

    Crews say the ship's name in every scene. Short names like Rocinante's nickname Roci get used more than long ones.

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Frequently asked questions

The Enterprise (Star Trek), the Millennium Falcon (Star Wars), Serenity (Firefly), the Nostromo (Alien), the Rocinante (The Expanse), the Normandy (Mass Effect) and the Heart of Gold (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy).

Decide what the ship does and who flies it. A navy names ships for ideals and battles; a captain names their own ship after a person, a joke or a dream. Pick one that fits and is easy to say.

In Star Trek, USS is usually read as United Space Ship, a nod to the US Navy's United States Ship. Many sci-fi fleets invent prefixes like it.

Yes. The names here are free to use in games, stories and RPGs. Check the game's character limit for ship names.

For fleets, yes. A class groups ships of one design, often named after the first ship built. For a single ship in a story, the ship's own name is enough.

Yes. Describe it, such as a battered cargo hauler or an alien-built explorer, to get 20 names that fit.

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